These provisions would mean an average district magnitude of 7.8 7.4, not including the seats for overseas Tunisians.

The simple (Hare) quota with largest remainders tends to favor small parties (for a given magnitude), especially given the large number of parties running lists. Thus, despite a laudable gender-balance provision, many party-district contingents will be of just one (male) legislator–a good case of the inter-party dimension affecting the intra-party dimension.

To be clear, this not a “mixed proportional system” as one blog covering the election states. It is a pure list system, with all seats (again, leaving aside those for expatriates) being allocated via PR. ((Many–in fact, most–PR systems use multiple districts; very few allocate all seats in one nationwide district. I point this out because the cited blog appeared to be referring to the presence of districts when calling the system “mixed”. This is simply not correct terminology.))

The big question, of course, is how well the Islamist party, en-Nahda, will do.

I am not sure when we can expect results. Al Jazeera is running a live blog on the election.

Of course, around here we are delighted that this vote was made possible by the actions of a fruit vendor, even if we take no delight in self-immolation, per se.

I added some additional information on the districts for Tunisians abroad.

These six districts have 18 seats, which is 8.3% of the entire assembly. Several countries have special districts for overseas citizens, but this is one of the higher percentages of such seats that I can recall.

I also corrected the district magnitude for mainland seats, which actually averages about 7.4. If the overseas districts are included, it lowers the overall average magnitude to 6.6.

Well, perhaps a bit too clever: The electoral commission just invalidated six of their lists, the poll-topping Sidi Bouzid list among them. I presume it has to do with campaigning, financial or expenses violations.

My source also is Tunisia-live, which now reported the following preliminary final seat totals: Ennahda 90, CPR 30, Ettakatol 21, Al Aridha Chaabia (Popular Petition) 19, PDP 17, others 40. These numbers will presumably be a bit in dispute then.